Before Sunrise (1995)

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the film asks us to consider the very nature and purpose of our existence in a fragmentary, superficial and transient universe.

January 17, 2010 Full Review | Comment

Dan Jardine

Cinemania

Linklater hasn't just crafted a detached portrait of a unique couple: he's painting a masterful examination of human nature, of that relationship we all want, but too often sadly see slip away.

August 16, 2009 Full Review | Comment

Gabe Leibowitz

Film and Felt

Acting tour de force that feels exceptionally real

February 9, 2007 Comment

John A. Nesbit

Old School Reviews

Hawke and Delpy keep the tone not only afloat but mesmerizing. So natural are their performances that it seems impossible not to believe they truly are soulmates who are locked in a doomed, all-too-short affair.

June 16, 2006 Full Review | Comment

Phil Villarreal

Arizona Daily Star

Inspired by Godard's lyrical film-essays, Linklater revisits his unreleased debut (also set on a train), while paying tribute to Rohmer's cerebral moral fables. Though narrower in scope, this film is more mature and generous than previous efforts.

April 29, 2006 Full Review | Comment

Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Agreeably alluring.

May 3, 2005 Full Review | Comment

Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

É como testemunhar duas pessoas se apaixonando uma pela outra em tempo real: algo simultaneamente mágico, comovente e de partir o coração.

September 26, 2004 Comment

Pablo Villaca

Cinema em Cena

It's the best pick up movie ever.

August 16, 2004 Full Review | Comment

Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

While it's a bit awkward and self-indulgent, it also creates two extremely vivid characters and one of cinema's more believable romances.

July 11, 2004 Full Review | Comment

Rich Cline

Shadows on the Wall

• 1. Celine: When you talked earlier about after a few years how a couple would begin to hate each other by anticipating their reactions or getting tired of their mannerisms-I think it would be the opposite for me. I think I can really fall in love when I know everything about someone-the way he's going to part his hair, which shirt he's going to wear that day, knowing the exact story he'd tell in a given situation. I'm sure that's when I know I'm really in love.
  – Submitted by Brigita S (2 months ago)
• 1. Jesse: People always talk about how love is this totally unselfish, giving thing, but if you think about it, there's nothing more selfish.
  – Submitted by Brigita S (2 months ago)
• 1. Jesse: OK, well this was my thought: 50,000 years ago, there are not even a million people on the planet. 10,000 years ago, there's, like, two million people on the planet. Now there's between five and six billion people on the planet, right? Now, if we all have our own, like, individual, unique soul, right, where do they all come from? You know, are modern souls only a fraction of the original souls? 'Cause if they are, that represents a 5,000 to 1 split of each soul in the last 50,000 years, which is, like, a blip in the Earth's time. You know, so at best we're like these tiny fractions of people, you know, walking... I mean, is that why we're so scattered? You know, is that why we're all so specialized?
  – Submitted by Brigita S (2 months ago)
• 1. Celine: Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?
  – Submitted by Nastassia J (2 months ago)
• 1. Jesse: I know happy couples... but I think they lie to each other!
  – Submitted by Júlia M (3 months ago)